[Amerigomag]

The system may be broken but the key to understanding this dilemma is that the system is changing. As political power became more centralized in California in the 1960's the money left the city council chambers or the county supervisor's boardroom and headed to Sacramento.

Return political power to the local level and the problem 1) becomes numerically smaller and 2) the graft money is returned to the local community by the local politician. Everybody shares in the new found wealth. The local grocer, real estate agent; car dealer; banker; barber; etc.. Better system.

[NormsRevenge]

Get the graft back to the local level? Did it ever leave?

I don't think some special interests are going to like that.